We live in a world where "busy" is arguably the most commonly used word. We spend hours at work. We spend hours in meetings and on email. We spend hours watching TV, or reading blogs or just surfing the net. We spend hours in bars, busy in meaningless conversation with people we will likely never meet again. We barely have time to acknowledge the existence of a world around us, let alone live in it.
There is another world where people desperately struggle for an education, for access to books. In that world, education is more important than food. Here, in the words of someone far more eloquent than I, is an introduction to that world.
Doris Lessing's Nobel lecture.
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